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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Antonia Morvai |
| Born | 24 April 1988 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Genres | Pop, folk-pop, soul |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, music producer |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, keyboard |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Website | antoniavai |
Antonia Morvai (born 24 April 1988), known professionally as Antonia Vai, is a Swedish/Hungarian artist, vocalist, songwriter, music producer and podcaster.
The daughter of Hungarian emigrants, [1] Antonia Vai was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She has been playing instruments and writing songs since her early childhood, drawing inspiration from the Legend of Zelda video game. [2] [3] She attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School and the "Rock & Soul" program at Fryshusets Gymnasium. Antonia Vai also graduated from the music program at Liljeholmens folkhögskola (college) in Rimforsa, Sweden.
While she mostly writes songs and sings in English, she has written and performed several songs in both her native languages Swedish and Hungarian. In 2013, Vai moved to Budapest, Hungary to pursue her music career. [2] [4]
Antonia Vai is participating in A dal 2016, a competition organised by the Hungarian public broadcaster Duna TV to select the Hungarian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 . Vai performs the song "Who we are" as vocalist with András Kállay-Saunders.
The song qualified with the highest of all scores in heat 2 on 30 January 2016. It qualified in the top 3 in Semi-final 1 on 13 February 2016, and competed again in the finals on 27 February 2016. [5]
Antonia Vai has been featured at several occasions in Hungarian national TV and radio stations.
In June 2015, Antonia Vai headlined a sold-out venue at the Müpa, Palace of Arts in Budapest with several musical guest artists, for example Sena Dagadu (Irie Maffia), the British/Ghanaian rapper M3NSA, [10] Saiid from Akkezdet Phiai and members of the gypsy-punk orchestra Bohemian Betyars. [11] [12]
Balcony TV Budapest hosted an episode with Antonia Vai Band feat. Sena in March 2015. [13]
Antonia Vai collaborated as a support band on Quimby's national autumn tour in 2013, playing as opening act for them in five locations across Hungary. [11] On 12 May 2015 Antonia Vai was supporting act for the Belgian musician Selah Sue. [14] On 15 April 2017 Antonia Vai was supporting act for Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan.
Antonia Vai was interviewed and photographed in a six-page feature of the Hungarian September 2015 edition of Elle magazine. [15]
In 2017 Antonia appeared in the road-movie series Trip To The Moon which aired on Hungarian TV channel RTL. [16]
The MiaFemme Podcast ("Girltalk Without Taboos"), was created by Luca Wilson and Antonia Vai in 2020. [28] MiaFemme is a feminist, anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ friendly, sex positive, body positive podcast. In 2022 hostesses Bernadett Rack and Lucy Cadena joined the podcast. [29] They release episodes weekly, each episode based around one theme, and topics of discussions have included emotional labour, polyamory, the female orgasm, hair removal, catcalling, colourism, Black Lives Matter, queerness, male allyship, or harmful gender roles and stereotypes. [30]
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